Pipe-coupling.



T. E. MURRAY.

PIPE COUPLING.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. l9l8-- .1 ,291,602. Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

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ATTORN T. E. MURRAY.

- PIPE COUPLING.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. I9I8- 1,291,602. Patented Jan. 14, 1910.

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Original applicationfiled February is, 1918,

' TED STATES rn'r 1 onnron.

THOMAS E. MURRAY, -or NEW YORK, n. Y.

PIPE-COUPLING.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

nivided. and this application filed March 22, 1918. Serial No. 223,889.

Toatt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAsE. MURRAY, a citizen of the United States,'.residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pipe-Cowplings, ofv which the following is a specifica- The invention .is

of sheet metal in half sections electrically welded together at their edges, and provided with reinforcing rings, as hereinafter more particularly described.

This application is a division of my application Serial No..217,494, filed February I 16, 1918, which matured-into Patent No. 1,267,258, datedMay 21, 1918.

In the accompanying drawings-- v Figure 1 shows in perspective the body portlo'n of an elbow pipe coupling made in accordance with my invent1on,-and one of .ofFig. 3. Fig. 3 is the reinforcing rings. Fig. 2 is a section of the completed coupling on the line X, X an end View of the com pleted coupling. Fig. 4 shows in perspectivethe'bod portion of a T pipe coupling made in' accordance with my invention.

Fig. 5 is a section of the completed coupling on the line Z, Z of Fig. 6. Fig. 6 is a-section on the line X, X of Fig. 5. I

Similar numbers of reference indicate like parts.

The body portion of the elbow coupling, Figs. 1,2, 3, is formed in two longitudinal 85 half sections '1, 2, the said sections being a pipe coupling formed sale, a pipe coupling,

metal and electrically preferably struck, sheet metal .and welded at their meeting edges. To the ends of said sections are electrically welded reinforcing rings 3, 4-, which may be internally threaded. Said rings -may be drop-forged or produced exactly and register with alike in any suitable way, the ends of said body portion.

The T coupling shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6 has its body portion formed in two longitudinal half sections 5, 6, tothe three ends of which are welded reinforcing rings3, 4, 7, preferably internally threaded.

I claim: 1. As a new ,article of manufacture and comprising two longitudinalhalf sections struck up from sheet Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

Serial No. 217,494. (Patent No. 1,267,258, dated May 21, 1918.)

pressed or stamped from v metal and electrically welded edge to edge,

THOMAS E. MURRAY.

Witnesses: p I

' GERTRUDE T.'PORTER, MAY M GARRY. 

